ExamGiant: The Future of Educational Testing, Interactive Assessments and Competitions

  We recently made an important policy and signup change to better protect schools and teachers. Previously, a student could potentially create an account and select a school affiliation directly. The problem with that approach is obvious: a student could choose a school they do not actually belong to, and then the school would be stuck cleaning up those accounts later. That is not a good burden to place on schools. So we changed the system. Students no longer sign up with direct school affiliation through public account creation. Instead, school-based student access should begin through a teacher/class code. That gives teachers much better control over who is actually entering their classroom space. We also added the ability for teachers to remove students from a class. If that was the student’s only class, the student account remains active, but school-sponsored free access is removed. This is a much cleaner and more professional approach than deleting accounts or leaving schools...

We’ve made major improvements to the V2 Assignment Builder in ExamGiant. One of the biggest goals was reliability. Teachers should be able to configure an assignment, preview it, and trust that their settings stay the way they intended. We spent time improving preview behavior, restoring saved settings more consistently, and making sure game-specific options appear when they are supposed to. We also improved speed-setting behavior and scoring configuration handling, which helps reduce confusion during setup. These changes matter because even small setup problems can slow teachers down and make a tool feel harder to use than it should. The V2 builder is designed to give teachers more control over how practice is assigned, while still keeping the workflow manageable. As we continue building new games and activities, making the assignment setup experience smoother is a major priority. This update may not look flashy from the outside, but it makes the platform more dependable where it coun...

ExamGiant’s subscription system has taken a big step forward. Students and parents can now manage subscriptions from inside the site in a much more professional way. That includes turning off auto-renew directly from ExamGiant instead of having no clear in-site option. Just as importantly, we made sure the behavior is fair and easy to understand. If auto-renew is turned off, access does not disappear immediately. The account stays active through the paid-through date that has already been covered. The site now makes this clear by showing a  Cancels at Period End  state. Behind the scenes, this required a lot of billing and subscription work, including: testing PayPal subscriptions in both sandbox and live mode making sure paid access is granted correctly after checkout making sure subscription status updates stay in sync making cancellation behavior professional and understandable This is one of those improvements many users may not notice right away, but it matters a lot. A l...

We recently made an important improvement to Circle Memory V2 to make the game fairer and more accessible. During testing, we noticed that some circle combinations could look too similar. That creates an unnecessary disadvantage, especially for students with color-vision differences. We did not want success in the game to depend on tiny color differences that are hard to see. So we updated the color system. Now, if two circles have outside colors that are close to each other, their inside colors must be much more different. And if two circles have inside colors that are close, their outside colors must be much more different. This reduces the chance of two circles looking almost the same overall. We also continued improving the V2 memory experience more generally, including preview/settings behavior and visual layout stability. Accessibility and fairness are not side issues. They are part of building a better learning platform. We want students competing against the challenge of the ga...

  We’ve added two new algebra games to ExamGiant Find Slope (Reduced Form) Find Perpendicular Slope These games were created to help students practice important algebra skills in a more active and engaging way. In  Find Slope (Reduced Form) , students look at two points and choose the correct slope in reduced form. In  Find Perpendicular Slope , students must decide which slope would be perpendicular to the one shown. Both games also require students to use  UND  for undefined slope when needed. One thing we cared about while building these games was making the wrong answers educational. Instead of filling the screen with random distractors, we used mistake patterns students really make, such as not reducing a fraction, mixing up signs, or confusing a slope with its perpendicular relationship. These games are now available in the newer V2 game system, and they have also been added to the original math practice system so more students and teachers can use them ri...

Building real-time academic competition where knowledge matters more than internet speed One  of the most exciting features now in development for ExamGiant is real-time 1v1 competition. The goal is simple: let two students play the same academic game at the same time, compete head-to-head, and make the experience exciting, motivating, and fair. That last word matters a lot. When two people are competing online, fairness is not as simple as just asking who clicked first. One student may have a faster internet connection. Another may live farther away from the server. Another may have brief lag even though they are just as fast and just as knowledgeable. If a system only looks at which click reaches the server first, then internet speed can matter too much. That is not the kind of competition I want to build. I want ExamGiant’s 1v1 mode to reward academic skill, reaction speed, and decision-making, not just raw connection luck. That is why we are building the 1v1 system with timesta...